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You got that right! And don't most other countries only test the “college bound elite” while we include test scores from 21 year old 9th graders that have missed 80 days of school?

It's crazy. We used to never have all of these standardized testing when I was a kid. I was in public schools, Hell, we moved around and I went through a lot of military schools or schools in places with a lot of other kids who were being moved around because their parents were in the military.

Liberals would tell you that because our parents moved around so much or with one parent gone for long stretches of time, or being stationed in foreign countries, that we would have a hard time succeeding. The problem for the liberals is that our parents were were good people who wanted us to have a better life than they did, but they didn't coddle us. I occasionally get together with folks from when I was a kid, and by all rights many should have been failures for having moved around a lot or been stuck in government schools, but the large majority of us had no problems and were quite successful in our careers.

I bet that if they had been pushing all of those standardized tests on all of us military brats, a lot of us would have had problems, given that some folks changed schools within a single year.

This standardized testing nonsense is the result of the entitlement culture I mentioned - they think everybody should be treated as if they are going to college.

Newsflash: Not everybody was meant to go to college. Some people are going to drop out, some folks are going to be working in blue collar jobs, welders, farmers, restaurants, etc.

We need to stop the No Child Left Behind crap before it destroys the nation's schools, and we need to stop this liberal nonsense that everybody could potentially go to college. Liberals do not understand that many people will end up in jobs that liberals frown upon, and will be perfectly happy with those jobs.